The solar system is teeming with
ocean worlds, including ice-covered moons like Saturn's
Enceladus and Jupiter's Europa. Beneath their thick, icy shells
are vast
volumes of water that may be habitable to extraterrestrial
life.

To that end, NASA is
holding a press conference Thursday to present "new results
about ocean worlds in our solar system," and discuss how that
information will impact "the broader search for life beyond
Earth."

NASA's new discoveries stem from the Hubble space
telescope and the Cassini probe, which is scheduled to
commit suicide this summer in the clouds of Saturn.